CD Details

Entertainment Reviews:

"[T]here's no doubting the wit of 'I've Enjoyed As Much Of This A I Can Stand', or the bleak poetry of 'That's What It's Like To Be Lonesome'..."

Tracks:

1.Introduction

2.Saginaw Michigan

3.City Lights

4.Once a Day

5.I Missed Me

6.Mama Sang a Song

7.That's What It's Like to Be Lonesome

8.Riverboat

9.The Tip of My Fingers

10.I've Enjoyed as Much of This as I Can Stand

11.Po' Folks

12.I Don't Love You Anymore

13.Still

14.Get While the Gettin's Good

15.The Wheel of Hurt

16.A Satisfied Mind

17.The First Mrs Jones

18.Bad Seed

19.Something to Believe in

20.Ride Ride Ride

21.Daddy and My Mama and Me

22.Open Up Your Heart

23.Homesick

24.Born

25.Remember Me

26.Pretty Eyes

Product Description:

Liner Note Author: Jon Philibert.

Bill Anderson has had a remarkable career as a jack-of-all-trades in the entertainment world. He's been a radio DJ, sportswriter, journalist, talk show host, game show host, and for years he had a regular role in the soap opera One Life to Live. Known for his gentle singing voice and frequent spoken word narrations, Anderson also hit the country and pop charts frequently in the '60s and early '70s as a recording artist. Most importantly, though, he has always been a top-notch songwriter, and his songs have been recorded by seemingly everyone under the sun, from Brad Paisley to Aretha Franklin. This set combines two of his earliest albums for Decca Records, 1965's From This Pen and 1967's Get While the Gettin's Good. The 1965 LP features Anderson singing a dozen of his own compositions, including "Saginaw Michigan" (a hit for Lefty Frizzell), "City Lights" (a big hit for Ray Price in 1958), "The Tip of My Fingers" (a hit for Anderson in 1960, it was also a big hit for Steve Wariner in 1992), and "Still" (Anderson's signature tune; it was a hit in this version on both the country and pop charts in 1962), while the 1967 LP mixes in Anderson originals with re-imagined versions of the old country gospel song "A Satisfied Mind" (probably best known in the version done by Porter Wagoner), and Liz Anderson's "Ride, Ride, Ride," among other covers, and together like this, these two early albums show Anderson at his commercial peak, and they show as well a singer and songwriter who was a subtly quirky maverick even as he blended easily, naturally, and without clamor into the countrypolitain sound that was then dominate in Nashville. ~ Steve Leggett